#i miss some of the old deactivated or inactive blogs

[ficoandleo]

I have mega ADHD so I forget things easily and have a hard time settling down and doing stuff. I don't remember everyone who deactivates or goes inactive. And I know I should express my love more for people who are currently around--i'd like to do that someday too!! But idk i kinda wanted to shout out to some of the people who deactivated/disappeared, especially recently, in the off chance they see this and know i love them lol

@battyoldman let's start with you because whether or not you decide to stick around you're kind of the most recent. I really hope you just need some time away for your mental health and, if this is something you'd like to continue doing, if it's something you enjoy, that you come back and keep blessing us with your presence. Your Ed is so. Silly and fun and chill and perfect. The video and movie titles you'd come up with are so befitting of his goofy conspiracy interests. You have really captured that old man's essence, in my opinion. Your interactions with Rui were so seamless I figured you were in one of the discord servers and already knew each other and you were just growing and exploring a relationship you'd already practiced in another setting. Honestly everything felt so seamless on your end when I saw you interact with others and when I got to interact with you--Ed was so largely unphased by everyone's shit and distaste for him(up until Towa said he was bad at sucking dick, he was not taking that lying down--) and the way he entertained himself with everyone's affairs. . .he really had the feeling of lying away in his tower, entertained by the humans. 10/10, if it's still fun for you I hope you won't leave us because we will miss you.

@ask-kaito-fuji i didn't get to interact with you much WHICH IS A SHAME. Your Kaito is so cute and he's. Really trying he felt so solid and charming and just awkward enough and I love the way you let him interact with posts that were ooc too because lbr he loves social media! He would be vibing out on tumblr!! It felt like he was this close to realizing he was in the matrix sometimes. Seeing people know a bunch of stuff and going 'why/how do you know so much it's so creepy!!' was delightful, and getting to personally chat with him once or twice was also very fun. 10/10 you brought the party to other people and you captured the character very well. His PDL is coming up though, so you may wanna hide him /joke

@frostheimking so your blog is gone but not deactivated(deactivated tumblrs have '-deactivated' and a string of numbers on the end of them and you can often still ping them) which, to me, reeks of Tumblr being stupid because I've seen that happen to multiple people before. I don't think you're gone on purpose, I assume there was a bad spam deletion somewhere or an alleged break of the rules because I've seen that happen before. So I'm hoping you either get the blog back or remake because, while you weren't around often because lbr it's slow around here for the most part, I loved your Jin??? I don't just mean because he was kinda flirting with Romeo, he was snappy and cold and. Idk he really felt like Jin. That's the best way I can think to word it, you captured his character from what I could see. I enjoyed our interactions and I enjoyed the ones you had with others too! I was looking forward to exploring Romeo and Jin's history and dynamic with you quite a bit haha. HOPEFULLY YOU GET YOUR BLOG BACK or remake if you're interested!! 10/10 tumblr fix your shit there's unfinished business--

@leo-brat-kurosagi-deactivated20 hey. You. You are far more Leo than I am lmao. I DO NOT HAVE THE MENTAL CAPACITY TO BE THE MEAN LEO THAT YOU WERE. I WISH I COULD BE AS SNARKY AND BRILLIANT. You weren't around super long and you didn't get to have a ton of interactions or answer a lot of asks but like. How do I say that I could just kind of tell what kind of potential was there for something great??? You handled him very well in the time you played him. You lived up to being a little brat for sure.

@sinostracasino-deactivated20241 YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE VISCERAL REACTION OF WHAT NO WHY COME BACK THAT I FELT SEEING YOU GONE. You were hilarious and fun and silly and also a good writer as I recall. Your Taiga had great energy and this underlying tension to him and we would have dug into that Taiga doesn't care about himself if Romeo wasn't afraid to do so. I was looking forward to them having some great, stupid, cyclical arguments, maybe a shootout, maybe eventually getting back together a little. And maybe a little something for that birthday trip to Rui's bar. And his chemistry and interactions with others and with anons were fun??? Immediately warming up to Towa? Teasing the honor students?? The little bit of 'bickering' with Ritsu? Also the way you tagged some of your reblogs god. 10/10 Taiga, he owes so much child support.

. . .those are the ones off the top of my head, mostly recent, which isn't to say I don't see or recognize or have appreciation for others not being around a lot or going away(like @/ask-lucas-errant who did answer an ask recently-ish, who isn't too active but that's probably because of lack of asks/interaction; @/shiranami-ren who I figure isn't around much because they draw a lot of their answers and that's a bit more intensive of a way to run their blog--amazing stuff and very much the classic way to do this from the old days, I would absolutely do the same if I could draw; and the Lycas who deleted probably because of inactivity) all of whom have/had great presentation for their characters and handled them well but. Idk. Maybe i ended up posting mostly people 'closer' to me in this context haha. . . .

I wish this fandom was bigger and more active with sending asks and stuff because I feel like that's a big contributor to people falling off or deleting, and I wish I were more consistent with asks and responses and better at sending asks myself because I could be the change I want to see in the world. (I feel like the asks I send have to be, like, good. Like I appreciate getting simple and basic asks but I feel like I need to ask Big Headcanon Questions or something.) But I know everyone's got their own lives and their own things going on so I'm not going to pretend I know what's going on with everyone, y'know? More than anything I hope everyone--active, inactive, deleted, or otherwise--is happy and safe and comfortable where they are and that the ones who've dropped off didn't do so because of anything bad or any kind of discouragement. Sometimes we lose interest in things and that's more than fine. Or life is busy. I hope you're all doing well. I miss you! I'm sure I'm not the only one!

[x0401x]

Do you think making a masterlist of currently active animanga blogs in a post to pass around perhaps would help? I try my best to find new ones since I don't know too lany, but as one anon stated previously in response to your post, a lot of orginal blogs are either inactive or deactivated. There are some series I love that have no content on here at all left since all the content is from blogs that are deactivated. Unsearchable.

I have the ambitious project (not now since I am in tremendous medical struggles/possible eventual end of life, but if I make it through it) of making some sort of semi regular gifset-manga-animanga contest of sort, with small money prizes, both for winners and smallers ones given at random for participation. Trying to bring back the old blood or bring in the new, you know? I am extremely far from that point and may never make it there, but I have always loved the animanga community of tumblr. It was always so cozy for me after my accident and after I ceased being a game developer. There is a charm to it!

Anyway, all of that to say you are not crazy, it did shrink and it is a relief to know I am not alone amongst those who miss the larger community that used to be there. Especially the content creators who deleted everything.

Hopefully we see a renaissance 💕❤

I hope you don’t mind me answering this publicly because Tumblr has been weird with asks lately, so I can never trust that my reply would go through if I answered privately.

And damn, I sure wish it helps because it’d help me, at least. I really wanna follow more blogs. My dash is dead lately. And wow, money prizes??? That’s very generous but are you sure about that? Not to rain on your parade or anything, but if you’re in tremendous medical struggles, maybe it’s best to save up all you can, even in the aftermath of it. By the way, I’m very sorry to about your condition. Hoping for the best to you.

I’ve been on this site for almost 15 years now and it’s the complete opposite of what it used to be at the beginning. It’s changed for the worst in every aspect except features and functionality. I really, really miss how it was before. I miss how the internet was back then in general. Just an entirely different thing. And that’s why I think it’s gonna be hard to get a renaissance, even with monetary incentives.

Don’t get me wrong, I think you should totally do the thing if you’re ever able to! It sounds pretty neat. But what needs to happen for things to go back to how they were before is that people have to start using the site as it was intended to be used. This place isn’t like other platforms, and although there are lots of posts explaining how to use the site properly, I feel like the people who want Tumblr to return to its golden are are the only ones passing them around. The message isn’t really getting to who it should be getting. I wish there was a way to teleport the new users back in time so they could experience the peak of this hellhole. But unfortunately, we have to find other ways to make them understand why they should reblog, make their own posts and follow/interact with other users. Perhaps that’s where the money could go to? A reblog/edit/follow spree challenge/contest? I don’t know, but either way, that’s a neat idea you have.

Again, hoping for the best to you! And thanks for coming by my inbox!

[bugbrains]

Heya!

My name is Coyote! I used to go by @hollowhartley on here, but my old account got deactivated for inactivity after I lost my login. I’m back online now and as knee-deep in Until Dawn as I’ve ever been, so if any of my old mutuals are still floating around on here, I’d love to reconnect :) I’ve honestly missed you guys a lot, but I have some pretty bad amnesia so I don’t remember everyone’s old usernames — but if my old blog name looks familiar, please feel free to reach out!

*I also follow back from a different blog (coyotenoodlesoup)!*

[obsessivelollipoplalala]

wow you read m&m so early immediately after the movie’s release! i came into this fandom relatively late (the start of this year). i’m quite curious, how was the whole fandom experience late 2018-2019? i heard it’s really fun since it was the peak of the queen fandom online among younger people, i’m sure there was a lot of content and it must have felt so crowded compared to now. but i also see comments on how there was a lot more drama back then soooo idk lol. sometimes i come across posts by dead blogs and most blogs in the notes are also dead as well and it’s like i just stepped into a cemetery lol 😬 it felt weird, almost like a liminal space where time has stopped. sometimes i feel sad over the fact that i came so late i didn’t get to witness the golden age of queen renaissance, but also lucky in a way that everyone active now is all amazing and tumblr became a tight knit community where everyone pretty much knows everyone and things travel quick. i’m on tiktok as well and the demographic there is definitely mostly kids and young teens, idk whether they migrated from tumblr or never stepped foot into the tumblr community. they’re mostly great people apart from having some boundary issues and some kids being dumb tactless and inappropriate but i definitely prefer it here lol

Oh, I read about the backlash to the movie, somehow found tumblr blogs talking about Jim, got curious and immediately found the book for free online, and read it all before I listened to a single Queen song that wasn't a single. I'm not kidding. Jim's book fully pushed me off a cliff into this world lmao. I remember my friend coming over a few days later and I said, "Listen, I need to rant to you about Freddie Mercury and his partner" and she just nodded and smiled as I lost my mind.

Anyway lol, my experience was limited since I only followed like, three blogs back then, all pro-Jim and anti-movie, two of which are gone now lol. I was only in the fandom on tumblr, too, and didn't see any of the insta fandom until 2020. From what I saw on tumblr, there was a lot more discourse about the movie, as to be expected, and there were more Jim haters as anons in people's inboxes. There was more Brian hate, too, due to his defense of the movie, which I've talked about at length before. Fan content certainly got a lot more notes back then, and it makes me wish I was drawing as much as I am now so I would've gotten more notes lol. But the fandom was more movie-focused in that people's interpretations of the guys was clearly based on the film and not interviews, you know what I mean? Because a lot of people were only really fans of the movie, and not the band, the fandom got a lot smaller pretty quickly by the end of 2019 as they lost interest, sadly.

The tumblr community is more tightly knit since it's so small, though not everyone is best buddies. That's normal, though. Everything I hear about tiktok makes my organs hurt, and I'd guess they were never in the tumblr community to begin with tbh, especially the kids. The fandom on here tends to be adults with some older teens thrown in the mix.

[pleinlespochescc]

2020 really has me realising how much I miss 2015 simblr

[kaoarika]

I’m pretty sure a lot of those 751 followers I have (I mean, this is a 13 year old blog) a great majority of them are from inactive blogs, some of them are bots, and I’m suuure af that it could be just Tumblr inflating the number because, if I go to the followers section of my blog, the pages are too disproportional between ones and the others. It could have 20 in one, and the next page 3, and so, and so. :/ (but the pagination says otherwise?)

I shouldn’t care, but with the new raid of pr0n spam bots in the last few weeks, it’s making me scratch my head in thinking, “how many DO I really have? and how many of you are still real..?.”

Edit - After going through it manually... apparently I may have 495. So, yeah, Tumblr is inflating weridly these numbers.

HOWEVER, I may blame glitches, because this is an ass-old blog that I made in 2009.

Similar to my missing drafts’ posts from the early 2010s. Similar to how sometimes their system doesn’t seem to compute weird old posts you reblogged or liked from yesteryear (they exist, but also they don’t)... I feel like either when I blocked users/bots from my followers, or when ppl deactivated their blogs at the time, they... simply think these numbers exist... but also they don’t. 

At ONE point in the past I do remember having around 400 or so followers a few years ago (it was one of those “post the pkmn it may correspond to your followers number”... but that was like 3 generations ago, SO, when there weren’t over 900), but that number increased in the years after the fact (hilariously, I did make a tag meme in 2014 where I put something like “240+”, but many other fandoms later -ankyou, dwd, h/pmi-, it’s obvious that number increased in 8 years, but... THAT many aren’t even on the pages themselves, putting that number back to 495, lmao.

[dvhs-inactive]

hey there!

it's been a hot second.

dunno why i got the compulsion to randomly log into this blog after four years or so give or take, but i did indeed feel like it.

a lot in my life has changed since i last used tumblr. i've had this blog up for over six years now and it has been a long journey. i was a tween when i created this account and now i'm a fully grown adult. i didn't deactivate even if it perhaps would have been the intelligent thing to do (i said a looooot of dumb things online as a teen, lots of meaningless discourse and all that crap) because it is a time capsule for a very different point in my life that i am long since past. gotta learn from the mistakes of old for the future, yaknow? i'm not sure if any old mutuals even still use tumblr or unfollowed me long ago for inactivity (or dumb old takes, both are totally reasonable) but if you're reading this, hello! i've missed you. i hope life has been kind to you since we last interacted.

this site had such a huge impact on how i grew up. i was a very troubled child/teenager with a horrid family life and i did not know how to cope properly. i lashed out online a lot as an outlet. i realized it was an unhealthy coping mechanism when my life came crashing down, i nearly died multiple times and was in a very very dark place. those clouds have since lifted and i like to think i'm pretty well adjusted now (fingers crossed!) with a stable job and years of therapy keeping me sane. to anyone who knew me as a teen, earnestly, seriously from the bottom of my heart My Condolences Lol. i took a long break from social media after some really awful family stuff went down and i realized the way i was engaging was not healthy. all the things i thought i cared about, i thought mattered, really didn't in the end. i took the time i needed to heal and it was good for me, i like to think.

apologies for this post getting rambly it's early in the morning and i'm kind of doing this on impulse but hey what the hell it's for old time's sake. i've been on hormones for around three years now and i'm coming up on the anniversary of my top surgery and life is finally okay. not perfect, of course, but good. i'm happy. i like me. i love my friends. and i want to be alive. there is a lot worth living and loving for in this life and it took me a long time to realize that.

anyways, i'll quit hogging your dash space. much love to anybody who bothered to read my silly little post. i've been considering actually deactivating this account and starting fresh as a way to let go of the past even if it is nice to look at embarrassing old posts every now and then. i hope you're all doing well on this big blue hell site. lots of love <3

[electricea-archive]

@isaaccecilbryant​​ sent- 3 and 4 for munday ask meme! :D ( RP Questions for the Mun - Accepting! )

3. Are there any inactive muses you wish to bring back?

Not particularly.  The reason why I abandoned old muses was because I either found the character difficult to write or because I had lost passion for them or their fandom - and I don’t mean to sound like I’ve totally lost all passion for these muses, but I just don’t have that excited, motivated drive that I did for them in the past - not enough to go as far as to make a full Tumblr blog for them again and post on it regularly and juggle it with Ryuji’s. I think the middle ground that I’ve managed to find for them is fair - they exist on my Discord still and they’re always available if people wish to write things with them or try stuff out with them so it’s not like they’re completely dead - they’re just not really used as often, nor to the same extent as Ryuji is. 4. Favorite RP moment you had?

To be completely honest, while I have had many wonderful moments, I try to avoid singling any one out as a favorite.  I don’t ever want there to be a ‘peak’ moment for me in Tumblr or in roleplaying.  I know part of roleplaying is that you go through some tough times and dry spells too and I don’t want to have any one moment to fixate on or feel nostalgia over.  I feel like nostalgia can be a very tricky thing and if you’re not careful, it can become easy to obsess over and fixate on - or feel like things are never going to be as good as they once were and I don’t want that to be me.  I don’t want to be the person who looks back and thinks ‘well my best days on here are behind me’ or ‘i wish i could go back to that time’.  I’ve met a lot of wonderful people and shared many wonderful memories - some of those people aren’t here anymore and don’t even write at all anymore.  A lot of their blogs have been completely deactivated or abandoned and some of these memories stretch back years.  I know I’ll always have those memories and a part of me will always miss them but my focus will always first and foremost be on living in the present and enjoying each moment as it comes.  Sure, it’d be great to be able to still talk and write with the same exact people as I do now one year from now and still be able to be on great terms and make amazing memories with them.  What I also realize is that shit happens and things can change so I try to just enjoy each moment for what it is and let it pass.  I firmly believe that there will always be a next moment just like it.

[kanzakinao]

tagged a while back by @rukinosaki ! thanks so much michelle! 🤗💖💖

why did you choose your URL?

because of her 🥺💞💕

i don’t post liar game as much anymore, but nao is still so so dear to me with her honesty and kindness and very being! still can’t believe i was lucky enough to snag her url tbh! 

any side blogs? if you have some, name them and why you have them.

i have @maelstromsbolt - which is an attempt of a side blog but i haven’t actually used it in abt two years fsdfs. i intended it to be a place where i reblog more text heavy/resource posts for myself and for fandoms i don’t rly blog abt - should probably get back to using it lol

i also have @spherehunting and @saltflakesnow, but i only really use them for testing out themes that catch my eye!

how long have you been on tumblr?

according to my archive......... since 2010 💀💀💀

do you have a queue tag?

nowadays, no! i tend to reblog in bursts now rather than putting things in a queue. back when i was more active i think i used #uniqueuesity and #q p infrequently

why did you start your blog in the first place?

got bored of gaia online and was in my pop punk bandom phase lmfao

why did you choose your current icon/pfp?

yuffie’s dffoo stickers are the cutest thing... i cleaned one up just to use em! 🥰

why did you choose your current header?

i recently changed my theme for yuffie’s dlc release! and yuffie’s magical girl introduction is just perfect!! unreal how much that brought a smile to my face tbh i love yuffie and her dramatics soooo much 💚💣✨

what’s your post with the most notes?

this one! made back when i was your local jo harvelle editor for the supernatural fandom lmao. not my most favorite edit tbh - though it’s a nice reminder of my old editing style i guess!

how many people do you follow?

78......... i know few of them are deactivated/inactive too lol... i should def clean up my follow list and follow more ppl 😅😅

have you ever made a shitpost?

nah don’t think so

how often do you use tumblr?

daily/every other day or once a week if i get caught up w work. i try to catch up to the posts i missed and tend to like posts to reblog for later!

did you ever have a fight/argument with another user? who won?

uhh i don’t think so!

how do you feel about ‘you need to reblog this post’? 

signal boosting is good! i can understand why ppl may not rb them tho. it’s also important imo to fact check the post’s contents or at least search online a bit to verify that you’re not spreading any misinformation

do you like tag games? 

yea they’re fun! 😊👍

do you like ask games?

sure!!

which of your mutuals do you think is tumblr famous? 

prooobably some ppl in the video game fandom? not super sure lmao

do you have a crush on a mutual? 

maybe a couple friend crushes here and there but nothing past that lol

rules: choose 1 picture from your camera roll without downloading anything new to sum up your personality and then tag 5 people

i don’t rly save a lotta memes and w/e on my phone tbh but probably this one bc it best represents me w the content i reblog:

tagging: @collabels​ @lancres​ @ghostmay​ @catboydeklolynch​ @harukaozawa​ @createandconstruct​ (only if you want to! 💖💞💕)

[yousaytomato]

yo, I know already that this is gonna feel weird but ive been following your blog since ye olde days of when you reblogged the yogs and I really appreciate you being cool as shit and sticking around, because while I still do follow a few of the people I did originally in the yogs fandom (siins was a pretty big name back then and even now lmao) yours is defo one of the most active. keep it up, ily /p, and get some sleep B)

Thank you for sticking around too!! I honestly estimate that 90% of my followers are inactive now :( I've been following a lot of new blogs recently, because despite following literally over 2000 people, my dash always feels empty because so many people aren't here anymore.

I miss a lot of things about the yogs fandom, and old fandom in general, I used to love siins yogs art! I still have a couple of t-shits with their art on! I dip into the tag out of curiosity every now and then, but I feel so disconnected from it, it was so fun to be making art and gifs and writing things about stupid stuff at the same time as so many talented people and we all kinda felt on the same page! sometimes I look at old posts and the blogs are overwhelmingly either deactivated or have been inactive for years.

I don't think it's surprising the yogs fandom died off when it did, because of everything that happened with them at the time, and it's kinda of crazy seeing the rise of the "mcyt" fandom so many years later.

Mostly I don't know how to use other social media, and tbh none of them feel the same as here. Everyone keeps recommending tiktok for fandom stuff to me but the fact that I either have to get good at video editing, or attach my real life human face to every stupid thing I want to say really doesn't appeal...so I'm going to be sticking around for a while

[ladywind]

tagged by @suhaylahs thank u beloved💖💗

Playlist Tag Game:

rules: we’re snooping in your playlist. put your entire music library on shuffle and list the first ten songs (including music only stuff like OSTs as well as songs) and then choose 10 victims.

sunset lover - petite biscuit

real men - mitski

missed connection - the head and the heart

stole your car - charlotte lawrence

lovesick. - FINLAY

strange phenomena - kate bush

you and i - LEON

kiss you - moons of mars

suspended in gaffa - kate bush

good times - all time low

Get To Know Me

Why did you choose your url?

heehoo feng xin brainrot

Any side-blogs? If you have them, name them and why you have them

@yourfaveisphroggalicious but no one sends anything.. but also i dont promo it at all so SKDJNSJD i have other sbs but theyre mostly inactive n just url holders :p

How long have you been on tumblr?

oh man i made my first one when i was 12 and weve gone thru like 4 deactivations</3

Do you have a queue tag?

#5

Why did you start your blog in the first place?

bro idek

Why did you choose your icon/pfp?

heehoo feng xin brainrot go brr

Why did you choose your header?

TAIZI DIANXIA BRAINROT GO BRR

What’s your post with the most notes?

oh man theres this post from my old blog floatin around its at like. 60k? smth like that . the notifs were HELL

How many people do you follow?

111 and thats alr stressin me out</3

Have you ever made a shitpost?

man my atla meme blog days are over . but yeah

How often do you use tumblr?

terminally online moment/j

Did you have a fight/argument with a blog once? who won?

HAHBWASBFEHAKDJAD CLEARLY YOU WERENT AROUND FOR BEEPBOOPBITCH ERA

How do you feel about ‘you need to reblog this post’?

what if i said..............naur<3

Do you like tag games?

YEAZ

Do you like ask games?

YEAZ

Which of your mutuals do you think is tumblr famous?

UHH man idk idr kausaurs got some famous muts which ig makes him famous OH SUHAYLAH SUHAYLAHS FAMOUS

Do you have a crush on a mutual?

yea were kindating /J

Phone Photo Meme Game

rules: choose one picture from ur camera roll without downloading to sum up your personality and then tag 5 ppl

this is my fave img ever. anyways

@ anyonee who would like to bc im lazy</3

[bangtancuties]

Hey everyone! Ive been an "old guard" fan of BTS but most blogs I used to follow are inactive or deactivated. So please like/reblog/reply if you post/reblog BTS content (drama free would be nice) so I can check you out, and perhaps give you a follow! Bonus points if you also like to interact, I really miss interacting with mutuals on tumblr. Also dw if you post some mixed content with BTS, all cool with me!

I prefer to follow blogs over 18 as thats closer to my own age , but feel free to also rec some BTS blogs in the replies :)

[patrick-hockstutter]

Patrick-Hockstutter’s 3k+ Follower Playlist: Bowers Gang 🔪 and Follow Forever

Y’ALL okay I know I was MIA for the longest time but I want to thank all of you for supporting me all this time! Even when I was inactive I would see loads of notifications popping up on my phone and they always made me smile. There were also many times where I was definitely lurking around, but didn’t really post anything. That being said; all these years later I’ve still kept this blog close to my heart. And now I’m back! This quarantine has given me a lot of time to delve back into things that I love, but didn’t have much time for anymore. So even though this shit is wack, like what a time to be alive, I’m so thankful to be back with all of you ❤️

For my 3k+ event I’ve decided to make a Bowers Gang themed playlist and I honestly had so much fun doing it! I even put the extra effort in to put the songs in a specific order so they transition and flow together well. This playlist is not only songs I think they would listen to, but a handful of songs that just remind me of them when I listen to them. These boys have a strange place in my heart, what can I say? I wanted as many people as possible to be able to enjoy this, so I’ve made this playlist available on Apple Music and Spotify. Also, I have loads of other playlists including my Derry Days one that’s just a general 80s playlist, so feel free to check those out if you’re interested :) 

Bowers Gang Playlist:

Apple Music Bowers Gang Playlist

Spotify Bowers Gang Playlist

Follow Forever:

After being MIA for a while I noticed a lot of my old friends/mutuals either deactivated or went inactive as well, so I wanted to show some appreciation for the blogs I love that are still here (more or less so, anyway) as well as some new ones I’ve found that I’m really enjoying! So thank you to:

@belch-huggins @saintbalor @pennywise-fucker @owenteagued @owenteaguer @benryhowers @patrick-hockslutter @bowers1989 @sat-nam-saint @slasher-headcanons @piratecult @metalchick19 @metalchickaf19 @pattycake-hockstetter @forevermore-fanatic @bossbitchbowersgang @owenwilliamteague @trickkombowerskru @rvf3​ @muppmeep​ @substantial-exposure​ @bowers-goons​

Honorable Mention:

ihearyatits and thotstetter if you somehow see this hit a bitch up I MISS U

[antagonistchanremade]

One flaw that exists in all my themes, even Evolution, is that videos and particularly large images sometimes roll right off the post, like this.

Man this is ugly.

I don’t think this is a problem in the default theme, so I’m gonna look into seeing why the default theme doesn’t have that problem.

I mean, I’ve generally had a good time when it comes to reverse-engineering the default theme’s post formatting.

Most themes use Tumblr’s pre-2015 post formatting (where, you know, reblogs are shown in a plain pyramid of blockquotes and links), mainly because the basic implementation of posts just automatically applies that particular formatting; the default theme, however, uses the current style of post formatting. After a brief look at the default theme’s code, you quickly discover that it takes a lot of extra code to make posts look like they do on the dash... and that said code can be reworked to make posts look like just about anything.

Like, here’s the Default Implementation of post formatting, as seen on most Tumblr themes including Antag01 and Bliss, as well as the dashboard until 2015:

If you don’t do anything fancy with the coding for the posts, this is what you’ll get. Because deep down, this is how the site actually stores multiple series’ of reblogs.

Then, here’s the Official Implementation of post formatting, as seen on the Default Theme and the dashboard:

(ignore the fact that carnival-phantasm’s URL is green and in a green box, that’s from the Shinigami Eyes extension, not from the post formatting)

I don’t know how this is implemented on the dashboard, but on the Default Theme, you have to add a whole bunch of extra code to the post formatting to make it look like this. It’s honestly kinda scary-looking at first. I would say that it’s a good example of Tumblr’s Spaghetti Code at work... but then again, this was a late addition (remember, they had to very suddenly find a way to implement real formatting to the posts instead of the hack the site had previously been built around with just having pyramids of blockquotes, AND make it so all the OLD posts WOULD ALSO FIT INTO THIS FORMATTING), AND the complexity actually adds a lot of depth to it. When I first decided to try reverse-engineering the Default theme, I just wanted to implement the modern post formatting, which is why my initial reaction to seeing the code was “Oh, ew”; but then, after starting to understand how it worked, I realized that I could actually totally play with this and create my own entirely new post formatting from scratch, which in my opinion is better than the Official Implementation in most ways but also inferior in a few ways (namely, some things that are missing from my formatting). There is code in place to separate different additions to the post from each other, and code in place to retrieve the avatars of different users, and to disable the links leading to inactive blogs. Honestly, again, while my initial reaction to seeing this was negative... it’s probably the only thing Staff has done since all the way back in the Yahoo buyout in 2013 that’s actually impressed me. Reverse-engineering this was fun and gave me a lot of freedom. A lot more freedom than I would have gotten if I’d gotten what I was expecting and hoping for. There are still problems, of course- for instance, it’s utter nesting hell- but overall, it works.

So, finally, here’s my Evolution Implementation, how Evolution does things, featuring the same post as the Official Implementation:

(again, ignore carnival-phantasm’s green URL, that’s still from Shinigami Eyes)

So, part of the really complex coding for the Official Implementation is built around each individual post testing whether or not it’s an original post. Like, each post has a property that determines if it’s an original post, or if you reblogged it from someone. This is so that the post will run different code depending on if it’s original or not; it’s essential for making any non-Default implementation work. So, after I did all my other work, I realized something crucial- because I created my own formatting that didn’t necessarily fit with what people were used to, I should make it slightly more obvious which posts were original or not. So, I added a bit of code that only executes when the post isn’t original that adds that little “(reblogged post)” marker to the top of the post. It’s not too obvious, but it doesn’t need to be; again, it’s only there as a backup plan in case my formatting didn’t make it immediately obvious what was going on in the post.

Also, in my implementation, I decided to give each different player in the post a bit more gravitas. A big box dedicated to telling you who’s saying what. In my opinion, it’s a bit easier to parse posts with multiple replies.

And, actually, let’s take a look at something from Evolution’s preview blog:

There’s a very similar big box for Asks, in particular for the question and the answer. The box is slightly taller, but also doesn’t quite reach the edges of the post the way the URL box does. The avatars are slightly bigger, and are given a bit more room to breathe. So, it’s a bit consistent, but also there’s just enough going on to communicate that this is a separate style of conversation.

AND ALSO, quotes and links:

Again, a similar-yet-different style of big box. I will admit, formatting the links and the quotes themselves has nothing to do with the Implementation. Even with the Default Implementation, you can play a bit with the CSS formatting for links and quotes. But having the Evolution Implementation gave me the freedom to make that formatting consistently match up with how reblogs and asks are indicated.

Also, that quote is reblogged, but because Quote posts are formatted stupidly to begin with, I can’t have it really display the OP without breaking things. Quotes are.... not good. Even in the modern style of post formatting, Quotes still work the same way that they did in the Default Implementation.

Also also, that bottom part- the part that’s like “Five months ago, 4 notes, via”- that’s not part of the Implementation. Like the links and quotes, formatting those is something you gotta do even under the Default Implementation.

And just to give you an idea how complicated the non-Default implementations are, here’s the code for text posts in Antag01 (again, basically the simplest way to code them that most themes use and until 2015 they all used):

This is it. It basically just says, “This is a text post, and the title is a size 3 header that is also a permalink to the post itself.” There’s more code dedicated to formatting the post’s title than there is to formatting the post itself. Literally “{Body}” is the entirety of what’s responsible for that screenshot of the Default Implementation. The Default Implementation is just what Tumblr does on its own.

Meanwhile, here’s the code for text posts in the default theme (aka, the Official Implementation):

And here’s the code for text posts in Evolution:

Evolution’s “IsDeactivated” block is larger than Antag01′s entire “Text” block. There’s literally more code in Evolution dedicated to deciding what to do if someone involved in the post is deactivated than there is code in Antag01 about text posts period.

Anyways, if I do end up starting Antag 04 soon, I’m gonna come up with another style of implementation. As much as I like the Evolution Implementation, I kinda came up with it on the fly when I realized that I could make my own implementation, and it’s not as well thought-out as it could be. There are a couple oversights, and it’s very aesthetically tied to Evolution, and I wanna make a theme where I know from the beginning that a custom Implementation is possible and thus can tie things even closer together.

[deathnotemasterlist]

@yourjusticelawliet was a really good L rp blog, but the original owner of it deactivated. i wish it was archived or something lol best L rp blog ever

I know how you feel, I loved an rp blog, ask-alternative and I still miss it terribly. But, some fragments still exist of both blogs. Yourjusticelawliet was captured:

[1], [2], [3], [4]

Inactive blogs can still be source of inspiration & their stories & content can be enjoyed for years. The Graveyard (&the building inactive blogs section) is a space just for them in the masterlist:

yourjusticelawliet has been added to the graveyard and to the slide show

The “Wayback Machine” (archive*org/web) is a great resource to finding old sites. If you have one that you really enjoy, go to “Save Page Now” to preserve a snapshot:

Thank you for sending in this wonderful addition!

[bluebellthesponge]

how did you get into queen

i would say around i got into them around mid 2019? and mainly probably because of tumblr

i was in the 7th grade when bohemian rhapsody was first released but i never saw it in theaters and i remember hearing my classmates talk about it, but i wasn't interested and i was weird and didn't want to be "like others" aka be into popular bands so i kind of avoided anything queen related. my class later in the school year towards the end goes to the rock and roll hall of fame and i remember hearing classmates talk about wanting to see queen stuff as well and once again nothing struck me

it wasn't until june 2019 when my sister was basically doing a concert for a theater and one of the songs they played was under pressure and she put it on her playlists and i just liked the song and later i remember it being at night already tucked in for bed listening to under pressure on youtube and i saw recommendations being other queen songs and i just later fell down a rabbit hole...

tumblr was essentially the thing that finally drove me into being a queen fan. i never had a tumblr beforehand and only searched for some other fan content but without a blog until i searched up queen on here and i discovered this now inactive account and idk what but learning more about the history and watching performances and seeing pictures on their blog really drove me into being into the band and it essentially is what drove me into starting a tumblr blog as well

i remember looking queen up on tumblr at first and the back of my mind i was saying to myself: “don’t get into queen don’t get into queen” and sure enough i got into the band

i was an annoying 14 year old fan of queen on tumblr around mid 2019 to mid 2020 but around fall 2020 i sort of fell off and it seemed like a lot of other queen fans too because i remember a lot of people started changing interests or deactivating or going inactive and for almost two years i didn’t really go crazy for queen until june 2022 something sort of clicked again in my brain i remember being “oh queen? yeah they were a neat band that i really loved and i probably won’t care about them like i use to” but then proceeded to look up queen content in tumblr again and whoops june to now i am once again a now slightly annoying queen fan who’s 17

i am glad that the queen fandom once i started getting back into them again is much smaller in comparison than when i joined. i remember queen being the top band in those tumblr review lists and it was honestly pretty cool to see the awesome fanart people would make and seeing it on the front page and i still miss those parts when it comes to a larger active fandom but the fandom 2018 to 2019 and maybe a bit of 2020 was hectic and discourse abundant

on instagram the fandom was even worse while queen and the members’ tags were filled with once again with cool art the instagram side was even worse with discourse, being weird to roger and brian on their accounts along with the bohemian rhapsody actors. there was also weird attitudes towards brian’s, roger’s, and john’s children and wives and i am pretty sure roger’s ex longtime gf/now good friend, dominique, had to private her account because of stans

i didn’t engage with the twitter/tiktok/whatever media site fandom of queen and i am so glad i did not because i do not know what kind of damage twitter and tiktok would do on my 14 year old brain

instagram pretty much made me avoid any sort of queen fandom besides small groups of blogs on tumblr

anyways there’s my “little” history of my experience in the queen fandom and how i got into them ❤️